Posted by Bonn1997:
My guess might be that in the past coaches have tried to get Eddy to work on too many things at once. He's needed to work on passing out of double teams, rebounding, help defense, shot-blocking, going left on offense. Right now it looks like they have him working on rebounding and intensity on defense. That's enough for the time being. If/when he masters that, then he can work on passing.
I don't even think it's that. They work with ALL of the players in that asset. Notice how Crawford seems to be getting some more boards, or at least when he gets a lot of playing time. The only Knicks who I can think of that doesn't get a lot of rebounds is Steph, Curry and Davis, but Davis is just old. He used to bea very good rebounder. But you're right that I think the coaching staff is just working on one thing at a time with Curry. Notice he's not blowing many layups anymore? Notice he's hitting his free throws, or at least more of them. For this entire season, I think they have been and will continue to just purely work on helping Eddie put the ball in the basket and make low post scoring an instinct for him. Watch as he continues to put up better and better scoring and sometimes rebounding numbers this season, he comes into camp in great shape, and you know what's gonna happen? LB is going to destroy the shizat out of him b/c of his passing. You guessed it, this is when they'll work on his passing. His scoring numbers are going to be way down again for a good portion of the season and then eventually, at the end of next season or the start of the season after that, Curry will break out. This is, of course, his health stays at it's best and he keeps his head on his shoulders and stays in shape.
This is how you develop these kind of players. It takes a lot of time. I have a feeling they are doing similar things with Jamal and the rest of the Knicks rookies.
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